FDP in the retro election campaign: Who stole the Genscher posters?

He was considered a great statesman and liberal icon-in the Bundestag election, the weakening FDP advertises on posters in Berlin’s bacon belt with former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. But suddenly his portraits from the 1980s have disappeared from the Lamen masts of the Brandenburg municipality of Stahnsdorf, according to the party. The FDP suspects that some took the poster for their own party cellar, as the local association announced.

Around 20 of the suspended posters with Genschers counterfei and the slogan “This time it’s all about whole”. As the chairman of the FDP local association, Julian Regenthal-Patzak, said, this is not about vandalism. Because no destroyed posters were found, but only cleanly cut cable ties that are used for fastening.

“Of course we are pleased that our posters from the 1980s arouse so much interest. But we ask that we continue to let it up and not take it for private collections,” said Regenthal-Patzak. “After the Bundestag election, everyone can have them.”

The FDP politician has now again attached new gene portraits on the roadside, some of whom are hanging under the top candidate Christian Lindner. “Other local associations also want Genscher’s poster now,” he said.

The politician shaped for the FDP was Germany’s Foreign Minister for 18 years. He was an important architect of German unity. In 2016 he died at the age of 89.